Citizen Rex is a bizarre, sexy view of the future and what it means to be human. Twenty years ago, the most famous, lifelike robot was engulfed in scandal, arrested, and deactivated. An anti-robot movement developed, and body modification and prosthetic limbs have become hot, black-market items. Stories like these are the stock-in-trade of columnist Sergio Bauntin, whose startling revelations earn him the constant scrutiny of the mob and the city's mysterious investigators, the Truth Takers. When Sergio catches wind of sightings of the long-missing robot celebrity CTZ-RX, all of these interests will collide in violence and intrigue.